Rumours of Mass Effect Trilogy Trilogy Remaster: What would you like to see?

ME1 and 2 should largely be left alone. They aren't perfect but by videogame standards the writing is fine. Touch up the visuals and improve 1's inventory bloat so i don't spend half the game's runtime turning useless trash into credits/omni gel

3 needs an entire rewrite to even make any sense. From the basic premise being flawed (Reapers can simply fly through 300 odd years of Darkspace in like 6 months to attack the galaxy rendering the plots of 1 and 2 entirely nonsensical) to even the subplots (particularly the massive retcons of the geth to appear more humanlike/sympathetic and the idiotic resolution to their arc) it's not even really worth trying to rescue it.

But I'd rather move forward or even sideways ala Andromeda 2 than back.

I'm with Radec. The game that by far needs the most work is ME3. ME1 is ok enough, ME2 is what I would consider closest to perfection, and ME3 has its virtues but definitely hasn't aged all that great all things considered.

To its credit it had arguably the best art direction and (action) gameplay of the trilogy. It's a good looking and sounding game that has fun combat.


1 and 2 simply need remasters. 3 would need a total remake ala FFVII, with extensive rewrites of plot, characters, really everything.

And the Star Wars sequel trilogy was a master class in sci-fantasy cinema the likes of which the world may never see again. 

I like how the sequel hook line at the end actively contradicts the whole trapped in dark space thing, with Shepard walking away saying that they’ll find a way to stop the reapers.

Council: Stop the reapers? But....aren’t they trapped in dark space?

Shepard: Oh, will the wall around the galaxy keep them out forever?

Council: What wall? I don’t.........oooh 

While I liked some episodes, I wasn’t much of a fan of that either, but it was at least better written. STD and Desiccated Husk of Jean Luc were kind of drecky. 

I don't recall anything about The Reapers being trapped in Dark Space, its just where they retreat to when the galaxy is rebuilding after their last culling and leaving Soveriegn to watcg watch The Milky Way to activate The Citadel when certain conditions were met, but remote access was prevented.  I just took the only difference between the Humanity Cycle and the Prothean Cycle was that the Protheans from Ilos sabotaged The Citadel so it couldn't open the relay to Dark Space and eventually The Reapers took the scenic route.  So they might have been travelling hundreds of years already to get to the closest Mass Relay at the Arrival DLC sector of space.

They could get out of the box. Just not in 6 months. The Citadel and Alpha Relay backups were more conveniences than anything. 

A timescale of a few hundred years to reach the galaxy by conventional FTL probably doesn't mean much to an immortal ancient machine, but it would give the current cycle at least some time to develop a more plausible, internally consistent way of defeating them than "we suddenly found ancient magic machine that shoots magic R/B/G lazor beams that solve the plot". 

but i guess we had to have the permanent big dumb ending of a billion year old Reaper plot take place in the confines of like 2 years.

Geth ideology of self development to break out of the Reaper trap (which could have been a plot component of the above solution) was essentially retconned into the heretic perspective of utilizing Reaper technology to advance (in a really ill thought out, lore breaking manner that somehow turns Geth platforms into "alive" (they weren't before?) real boy individuals, which is a massive downgrade if anything) as if it was the right answer all along. This is especially stupid when you consider that the same narrative that does this, simultaneously proclaims "using Reaper tech bad" via Cerberus and other indoctrinated proxies ad nauseum. 

A more minor point, but for some reason they also tried to create a one sided victim narrative for the geth vis a vis the organics (did they think there wasn't enough reason to empathize with their perspective already? People seemed to like ME2 Legion as is), which makes no sense when put up against the numbers of people killed in the Morning War that had been previously elucidated. You can't really wipe out 99.99% of a population of 2 billion in "self defense" when it comes to a near-human species like the quarians (which presumably don't pop out of mom immediately armed and ready to fight like say a Rachni or Tyranid) and generally speaking, shooting diplomatic envoys and lost explorers on site without so much as a warning for 200 years straight doesn't fall under self defense either. Its more a presentation quibble than anything, but it just looks really sloppy from a writing perspective.

One thing ME2 did really well, imo, was show how the geth were more than flashlights with guns. How they had an entire society and perception that was alien to the organic mind. Alien, and not necessarily hostile. They didn't understand how a being could have an individual mind any more than we can comprehend a gestalt intelligence. They wanted to understand us, but not BE us.

But them ME3 turned them  into a bunch of Pinocchios.

As for the Reapers, having multiple paths into the MW was totally reasonable. Setting up paths into the MW such as the Citadel when they can just fly in and start wrecking face (totally IGNORING the Citadel) did not.

They're grittier and offer a cynical take on the state of the Federation (the early Federation in DSC is much more militaristic and willing to play by cowboy diplomacy for example, and PIC shows a Federation that has become somewhat unwilling to stand up for its values as of late in the name of political stability,) but at the end of the day, they're very much still idealistic and utopian places - they both go to pains to show that there is a better way, and that believing in that better way and working for it will bring everyone forward. 

I wouldn't know. I quit Star Wars after Disney nuked the EU and to me, it's all just pretend shit. I've frankly heard some rather poor things about it, but I just don't have the care to see any of it.

The thing that bugs me is that it has certain ideas that I rather liked and would’ve preferred to continue, but overall was thoroughly misguided. The whole trilogy feels like dueling banjos but the guys playing are trying to beat each other to death with their instruments.